User browsing information, particularly their non-search related activity, reveals important contextual information on the preferences and the intent of web users. In this paper, ...
In this paper we introduce a framework for automated text recognition from images. We first describe a simple but efficient text detection and recognition method based on analysis...
This paper presents a modified diary study that investigated how people performed personally motivated searches in their email, in their files, and on the Web. Although earlier st...
Jaime Teevan, Christine Alvarado, Mark S. Ackerman...
Keyword searching while very successful in narrowing down the contents of the Web to the pertaining subset of information, has two primary drawbacks. First, the accuracy of the se...
Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...